Personally 2024 was ok for me even though I was laid off and unemployed for 6 months. Ok maybe it’s a little shitty.

If we’re in the darkest timeline, what was the last point where it felt there was so much hope and joy in the world?

Some options commonly put out.

  • The day Pokémon Go released July 2016. So prepandemic and we went outside and and a girl told me where to find Weedles. Yep I’m in a videogame

  • The day before 9/11 or when Harambe got killed

  • When Endgame released, culmination of 10 years of marvel moments into a single movie, people cheering in the cinema. Still pre pandemic, maybe there’s a trend here

  • lazyViking@lemmy.world
    121·
    16 days ago

    My last good day is always and forever today. My (or your) circumstances should never impair my (or your) ability to be happy 😁 it sounds weird, but you are allowed (it is your right) to feel happy even as your life is crumbling around you. And if you can’t find that feeling, that’s alright too.

    • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
      11·
      16 days ago

      I feel like it’s not my right to be happy unless I can impress in some way, like through work or academia. Everyone else has surpassed me and I can’t impress anywhere, so I just feel like I don’t deserve happiness anymore.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        Don’t live your daily grind according to the highlight reel you see about other people.

        We often don’t see the full lives of even our closest family members - thoughts, hopes, desires, dreams, frustrations, disappointments - and our window into our friends’ and acquaintances’ and strangers’ lives is even smaller. It’s like we only see the few triumphs they post on FB/insta and that’s all we know of them.

        You can’t compare yourself to that. You know your full day of struggles, the long grind between wins, and you only see the big wins of your friends. You know your own dark thoughts and barely-held heated retorts but you never know either of those from anyone around you.

        You will always feel inadequate if you’re comparing your everyday to the best days of your contacts. It’s okay to stop that; and, if you can, we often discover we don’t suck so much.

      • lazyViking@lemmy.world
        11·
        15 days ago

        Then im sure you don’t deserve it. No reason to not be happy just because you don’t deserve to

    • Rice_Daddy@lemmy.world
      9·
      16 days ago

      While this is true, I would also add that it’s ok and valid to be sad and unhappy. There is no obligation to put on a smile. You can be happy and not smiling, or you can be unhappy and not smiling, just be you.

    • DillyDaily@lemmy.world
      81·
      16 days ago

      See this way of thinking has actually landed me in a pretty bad place with my mental health.

      “I’m in charge of my own emotions” is not something an autistic person with rigid lines of thinking should internalise, but I did.

      As a result I never gave myself permission to feel negative emotions, because who wants to feel negative about anything if they don’t have to?

      It seemed so smart and healthy, just be happy, that’s what everyone always says about the easy fix to mental health. It was easy too, regardless what was happening around me, if I pictured myself feeling happy, I’d feel happy.

      I’m in my 30s and regularly mistake sensations with other sensations (am I tired or do I need to pee? They both cause a headache) and also I think all my negative emotions are skipping my brain entirely and coming out my arse in the form of IBS.

      I can’t picture myself feeling sad to experience sad because I …don’t remember what sad feels like.

      I remember what vomiting feels like, because that’s how my body has reacted to “sad” recently.

      • lazyViking@lemmy.world
        12·
        15 days ago

        Well if you take the advice of randoms that far, you are just plain stupid and should not be in charge of your own actions

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    17 days ago

    May 5, 2019. The last chance to avoid a series of mistakes that ruined my life. Yes I put way too much thought into this.

  • Anissem@lemmy.ml
    181·
    17 days ago

    That first day when I figured out masturbation was tops, all down hill from there

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
    331·
    17 days ago

    July 4, 2012. The day the Higgs Boson was discovered. Everything since has done nothing but get stranger and stranger. I won’t even say it’s all just gone to shit. It’s just to me, everything since has been… increasingly unreal.

  • totallynotaspy@fedia.io
    36·
    17 days ago

    That fateful day in July 2009. Parents were hit by a guy who was fucked up by a shopping list of drugs. Mom dead, the family that was quickly fell apart. She was no longer around to help hide my father’s alcoholism. Not even 6 months after her death, a foul harpy of a female human latched on to him and only encouraged the worst parts of him while slowly doing everything she could to remove or erase his family.

    Wrong parent died that day.

  • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    17 days ago

    I don’t know about good, but today was an unusual day for me.

    With a blizzard setting in, I figured my best chance to get to work was on the bus. So I was walking up to where I could catch it passing various houses with Christmas lights and decorations, only to stop dead in my tracks at one particular house.

    It’s sole decoation was an 8-ft tall Krampus on the front lawn. It had a goat head with horns and demonic eyes and sharp claws holding a gnarled staff on one side and chains on the other. It’s dark burgundy cloak had a dusting of snow on its shoulders to complete the look.

    Then I was on the bus trying to digest what I had seen when who should walk on but Polar Man! He’s a local superhero with a bushy beard and a mask. He helps people in distress shovel out their driveways. At one point as the bus was passing through a residential area, he got up and yelled “Driver! Stop the bus!” and leapt out dramatically to cheering passengers.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    10·
    16 days ago

    I would say early 2010 or maybe 2009. live 3 miles from work and regularly walked it. In the morning my wife would walk almost halfway to a park and we had our dog. She would turn around and go back while I would continue on. I could take a bus in incliment weather only having to be in it for a few blocks. Sometimes I would bike up to the lakefront which was nice and scenic and stretched it to 7 miles which was nicer for a bike ride. My wife and I had macbook pros which large powerful laptops with tons of ports and osx was great and applecare was still stellar (it actually went down somewhere around this time). I worked in a research lab and what was accomplished seemed magical.

  • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    14 days ago

    2021 (Ngl i feel like everything really went down hill in 2022,2024 Isnt bad tho and hopefully 2025 isnt bad)

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
    2·
    17 days ago

    For the most part life has just been getting better the older I get so I’d say that day is still ahead of me.

  • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
    342·
    17 days ago

    My job moved me from Oklahoma to California. Took 3.5 months to sell my house but I was in Cali that whole time while my wife and daughter stayed behind waiting for the sale. The day I finally came back to get them after the sale was that day. I had never been away from them more than 2 days in 15 years. That 3.5 months alone was so fucking hard and depressing. Never been so happy to see them.

    That day. For me.